Byzantine Empire

None

• Hagia Sophia

• Westminster Abbey

• Canterbury Cathedral

• St. Peter's Basilica

None

• Greek Fire

• Double Walls

• Trebuchet

• Ballista

None

• Mosaic

• Fresco

capital of the Byzantine Empire

• Constantinople

• Rome

• London

• Alexandria

spiritual leader of the East

• Patriarch of Constantinople

• the Pope

• the Oracle at Delphi

• the Ghost of Sutton Hoo

the problems of being emperor (metaphor)

• "Malady of the Purple"

• Controlling vast lands

• Speaking Greek

• Running chariot races

fall of the Byzantine Empire

• AD 1453

• AD 476

• Ad 1066

• AD 410

first use of Greek Fire

• AD 672

• Ad 1066

• AD 410

• Ad 476

inventor of Greek Fire

• Kallinikos

• Constantine

• Archimedes

• Einstein

primary language of the Eastern Roman Empire

• Greek

• Latin

• English

• Celtic